We headed up to see our Northern friends, going on a little tour on route to see our friend Andy which was far too brief but lots of fun. Though I don't think Alaric is going to forgive him for introducing us to the 'What does the Fox Say' song!
Jean loves this song as it is the style of music she likes but not about love or money or things she's not interested in - it's about foxes and she loves animals - her comments where high pitched and consisted of 'CUUUUUUTE!!!!' Also the old guy reading reminds her of Ferfer when he's reading her and Mary stories and doing the silly sounds. I personally think the guys are cute and I love silly songs 😉
Alaric lives in horror as I have started singing it but merging it with leek spin and the gummy bear songs etc al 😀
Anyway it was great seeing Andy again and the kids loved him 🙂 One of the things it has highlighted for me is how long it has been since I saw a lot of my friends - something I wish to rectify this year.
Then we went on to Yorkshire to see our friends Ulrike and Mike and their ginea pigs 🙂
Ulrike had decorated the house fantastically for Christmas! Jean and Mary are still talking about it 🙂 There were lots of pocket dragons and a golden dragon in a santa hat with bells on it for Jean. Mary is so happy with her 'babies' - survallian family rabbits - baby and toddler 🙂
The girls loved opening their presents and we played board games 🙂
We went to see some horses (photos on Alaric's phone still!) and watched the Grinch and Brave and played Mario Carts which I am even worse at than 2 years ago, when I played it at my Bro's house - Jean says this is because I was using a steering wheel last time and this time it was controllers. I was pretty bad with the steering wheel!
Ulrike is a Harry Potter nut just like us and has the MOST amazing potion bottle collection 🙂
We also had an amazing breakfast with bread rolls in a lovely wicker basket:)
It was lovely and we really enjoyed ourselves and wish we could have stayed longer with both Andry and Ulrike and Mike. Here are more photos of the girlies and piggies 🙂
As you can see Jeany still really loves the bundles of fluff 🙂
Main one for me is just to get my college stuff over and done with, I think if I was to do anymore I'd look at doing a module a year or doing it full time. Seems a contradiction but it's the way I work best - I have to either be immersed in it or have it so that I can potter along with it.
Apart from that I am really nagging Alaric to try and get that novel off of my old laptop - yes the same novel I was going to get sorted last year - yes that one - now hush.
There is the Monster Blogs 5 yr thing and all that jazz! Hoping to get more things on Etsy and do more of the Bristol Markets.
Mainly though I want to actually meet up with and write to my friends again. I feel I've been really bad at this especially the last few years.
House wise there is the leaks and things to get fixed which I am hoping is not going to be a huge headache to be honest but know probably is.
This year the monster blogs are 5 yrs old on average 🙂 So I thought I'd do a little celebration. Mainly I will be trying to finish various projects off.
This month I am starting with the poetry Muse Monster game which I hope to have on sale properly by the end of the month.
I'll also happily write flash fictions for people if you leave a character or some words or even a story starter in the comment field below 🙂
The festive period has been trying - it has by no means been the worst one we've ever had but there are catastrophic Christmas's and then there are just bad Christmas's - this is the latter.
Lot's of medium and small things have been going wrong - washing machines breaking resulting in 3 weeks of hand washing, a pain flare up for me, boiler breaking so not hot water or heating for almost two weeks, vomiting kids (at various points and for various reasons), tiles flying off the roof, Al getting sinusitis badly resulting in headaches were he couldn't look at writing etc..., a misunderstanding meaning the work I'd done for college was all wrong and has to be redone, spam attack on blog breaking my emails so I then don't see the requests for the changes etc..., kitten is being duffed up outside and has over cleaned her fur as it itched in healing meaning she has bauld patches, garden water logged so emergency stuff has to be done for Chickens, workshop roof leaking (again), there is more but it's pretty trivial and is only an issue as it's all happening together :/
But you know we have insurance for the roof and insurance for the boiler and so it is being sorted and we where given cash for Christmas by a few relatives so fixing things for the chickens was too bad.
For every thing that has gone wrong wonderful things have happened - christmas jumpers appeared in the post, I actually managed to go and attempt climbing (huge huge break through for the pelvis especially as it was my shoulder that stopped the climbing and not the pelvis!), Jean and me are really enjoying going to Games Workshop together to paint her little hobbit figures, I met up with a dear friend I haven't seen in a long long time, I have a beautiful little niece, friends brought round hand knits they had made the girls and chocolate and stuff, I sold poetry books at a level I wasn't expecting, I won an advent competition and massage oils arrived in the post from the local college and so on.
So I am really stressed at the moment and really fearful that things will get worse but at the same time I feel resigned and also on finding our dinning room roof is leaking this morning - to cries of 'It raining in my house! Oh dear broken!' from Mary - I am awaiting the next good thing and yes I am writing this instead of finishing of my course work but I can't do anymore until my emails are fixed and that is chugging away in the background on my laptop so for now I am off to eat some cheese and biscuits and discuss plans for the year with Alaric.
Happy New Year everybody.
Ok so I got the idea for a picture yesterday to do with women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths which has been labeled STEM - I don't really like the phrase as most people haven't got a clue what it is and it just sounds wrong to me. Anyway I couldn't find the pens I wanted and had run out of room in the sketch pad I wanted (I thought it should have been an Inspira Picture) so this is more a concept/idea piece and I may re-do it at some point.
Ada is watering the roots and that is supposed to be an astronaut at the top! Enjoy!
Animals, Events and Outings, Jean, Mary | sarah | 
Thu 9th Jan 2014 9:21 am | 
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